The White House has responded to petitions about these bills that raise objections about the jackboot power they would wield over the internet. In a blog post the White House conceded that they need work.

White House は、それらの法案がインターネット上で行使すると思われる、高圧的なパワーへの反対意見が高まるという陳情に対して回答した。ブログ･ポストにおいて、White House は権力を行使する必要があると認めている。

The statement, which is signed by Victoria Espinel, intellectual property enforcement coordinator at the Office of Management and Budget, Aneesh Chopra, US chief technology officer, and, perhaps most significantly, Howard Schmidt, special assistant to the President and cybersecurity coordinator for national security, concedes that the acts are controversial and need more attention.

“Right now, Congress is debating a few pieces of legislation concerning the very real issue of online piracy, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the PROTECT IP Act, and the Online Protection and Digital ENforcement Act (OPEN),” it says.

“We want to take this opportunity to tell you what the Administration will support-and what we will not support… While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.”

Having a major carrier like AT&T backing OpenStack will help drive the project forward, Jim Curry, chief stacker at OpenStack, said. He spoke on Monday at the AT&T Developers Summit at CES in Las Vegas.

AT&T last year began talking about offering new cloud services for enterprises. In addition to throwing its support behind OpenStack, on Monday the operator also launched new cloud services geared toward mobile developers. Cloud Architect, which will become available in the “coming weeks,” will allow developers to set up public and private compute instances on dedicated or shared computing resources. Developers will be able to scale apps quickly and order up new services via an online service portal.

OpenStack was initially developed by Rackspace and NASA. It is being used by providers of public cloud services like Internap and AT&T and is just starting to be used by vendors offering products enterprises can use to build internal private clouds.

Operators like AT&T are natural cloud service providers since they already operate data centers and have close relationships with enterprises. So far, however, they’ve been relatively slow to enter the cloud services market.